The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 163
o make the Manchester and Liverpool railwayas valuable as possible to the merchants of the latter place,it is carried down very near to the docks, so as to allowgoods to be conveyed from the ships to the railway withas little intermediate travelling as possible. To effectthis, the railway is… … The subjoined cut represents the upper end of thistunnel, at Edge Hill. The first shaft of this tunnel wasopened in September, 1826. It is twenty-two feet wide,and sixteen feet high. The sides shoot up nearly perpen- THE EDGE-HILL TUNNEL. 151 dicular to a distance of about five feet from the…
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